hant

See also: hánt, háñt, hänt, ha'n't, ha'nt, and han't

English

Etymology 1

See haunt.

Noun

hant (plural hants)

1. (Scotland, US, colloquial, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of haunt, haint (“ghost”)
   • 1907, Harold Bell Wright, chapter I, in The Shepherd of the Hills, New York: A.L. Burt, page 20:

     “ […] Say, Mister, did you ever see a hant?”
     The gentleman did not understand.
     “A hant, a ghost, some calls ’em,” explained Jed.

   • 1934, Cecile Hulse Matschat, chapter 3, in Suwannee River: Strange Green Land‎^[1], New York: The Literary Guild of America, page 52:

     […] he shivered as though a hant had touched him with its ghostly fingers, for night was near and he was alone in a depth of the swamp where he had never been before.

   • 1967, Richard M. Dorson, “Spirits and Hants”, in American Negro Folktales, Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett, page 213:

     The term “hant” covers all malevolent and inexplicable sights and sounds. Primarily hants protect buried treasure and linger about ghoulish death spots.

   • 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 22, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‎^[2], New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 140:

     Naturally, I believed in hants and ghosts and “thangs.” Having been raised by a super-religious Southern Negro grandmother, it would have been abnormal had I not been superstitious.

Etymology 2

Contraction

hant

1. Pronunciation spelling of hadn’t.

Anagrams

• -anth, Hnat, Nath, Than, tahn, than

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German hant, from Old High German hant. Cognate with German Hand, English hand.

Noun

hant f (plural hénte, diminutive héntle)

1. (Sette Comuni) hand

   An hant bèsset d'àndar.

   One hand washes the other.

Declension

Declension of hant – 2nd declension

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	an	de	hant	de	hénte
accusative	an	de	hant	de	hénte
dative	anara	dar	hénte	in	hénten

Derived terms

• drukhan de hénte
• hantafa ?
• hantfala

References

• “hant” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Hungarian

Etymology

Probably a derivation, but the root word is disputed:

1. From Proto-Ugric *kᴕmɜ (“clump in a marsh”) + -t (noun-forming suffix).
2. Split from han (“marsh, swamp”) (a variant of hany (“marsh, swamp”)) + -t (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒnt]

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɒnt

Noun

hant (plural hantok)

1. clod (lump of earth) [from c. 1395]

   Synonyms: földdarab, rög

2. (poetic, rare) grass, lawn [from 1784]

   Synonyms: fű, gyep

3. (poetic) grave (place of burial) [from 1788]

   Synonym: sírhant

4. (poetic) mound, hillock (a small grass-covered mound of earth) [from c. 1600]

   Synonyms: földkupac, földhányás

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	hant	hantok
accusative	hantot	hantokat
dative	hantnak	hantoknak
instrumental	hanttal	hantokkal
causal-final	hantért	hantokért
translative	hanttá	hantokká
terminative	hantig	hantokig
essive-formal	hantként	hantokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	hantban	hantokban
superessive	hanton	hantokon
adessive	hantnál	hantoknál
illative	hantba	hantokba
sublative	hantra	hantokra
allative	hanthoz	hantokhoz
elative	hantból	hantokból
delative	hantról	hantokról
ablative	hanttól	hantoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	hanté	hantoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	hantéi	hantokéi

Possessive forms of hant
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	hantom	hantjaim
2nd person sing.	hantod	hantjaid
3rd person sing.	hantja	hantjai
1st person plural	hantunk	hantjaink
2nd person plural	hantotok	hantjaitok
3rd person plural	hantjuk	hantjaik

Derived terms

• hantol → elhantol
• hantos

 

Compound words

• hantmadár
• sírhant

 

Further reading

• hant in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch hant.

Noun

hant f

1. hand
2. person
3. side

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: hand
• Limburgish: handj
• Zealandic: and

Further reading

• “hant”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “hant”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Middle High German

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German hant, from Proto-West Germanic *handu.

Noun

hant f

1. hand

Declension

Declension of hant (feminine, i-stem)

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	einiu	diu	hant	die	hende
genitive	einer	dër	hende, hant	dër	hende
dative	einer	dër	hende, hant	dën	henden
accusative	eine	die	hant	die	hende

Descendants

• Bavarian: Hånd

  Cimbrian: hant

  Mòcheno: hònt

• German: Hand
• Hunsrik: Hand
• Luxembourgish: Hand
• Vilamovian: haond
• Yiddish: האַנט (hant)

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *handu.

Noun

hant f

1. hand

Inflection

Declension of hant

	Singular	Plural
nominative	hant	handi
accusative	hant	handi
genitive	handa	hando
dative	handa	handon

Alternative forms

• ande (in compounds)

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: hant
  • Dutch: hand
  • Limburgish: handj
  • Zealandic: and

Further reading

• “hant”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *handu, whence also Old English hand, Old Norse hǫnd, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 (handus).

Noun

hant f

1. hand

Declension

declension of hant

	singular	plural
nominative	hant	hanti
accusative	hant	hanti
genitive	hanti	hanto, hanteo, hantio
dative	hanti	hantum, hantun, hanton
instrumental	hanti	hantum, hantun, hanton

Descendants

• Middle High German: hant
  • Bavarian: Hånd

    Cimbrian: hant

    Mòcheno: hònt

  • German: Hand
  • Hunsrik: Hand
  • Luxembourgish: Hand
  • Vilamovian: haond
  • Yiddish: האַנט (hant)

References

1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014